Shantideva's Guide to Awakening

The most comprehensive modern commentary on Shantideva's master work.One of the great classics of Buddhist literature, the Bodhicharyavatara, or Way of the Bodhisattva, is required reading for understanding Tibetan Buddhism. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, Shantideva, the seventh-century Buddhist master, outlines the path of the bodhisattvasthose who renounce the peace of their own liberation, vowing instead to attain enlightenment for the sake of all others. The Dalai ...